For some reason, possibly jealously or a simple inability to give praise to a team they’ve been “bantering” for year, there seems to be an unwillingness from plenty of football to give Liverpool any credit for their unbeaten start to the season.
There are plenty of ‘reasons’ that explain the Reds being unbeaten, but curiously, not many of them seem to mention that the club has world class footballers and a world class manager. Funny, eh?
The Reds, according to a lot of fans on social media, have been “lucky”. Go ahead and search for “lucky Liverpool” on Twitter if you get a second and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
If you take certain moments in isolation – day, an error from Dean Henderson or an injury time foul from Mark Albrighton – then you might just be able to say Liverpool got the run of the green.
However, you could also look at the games in which those incidents happened and realise that The Reds dominated them both.
Remember last season when the common narrative was that “VAR would be the end of Liverpool”? The Reds were such diving cheats that they’d be found out apparently. That’s been put to bed now because it was a false narrative. This “lucky Liverpool” narrative will go the same way.
Liverpool, over the last 18 months, have made a habit of scoring late goals, there’s no doubting that, but that’s not luck, that’s just a relentlessness and a desire to fight to the end. It’s not luck, it happens too often for it to be luck.
The Reds currently sit top of the Premier League table having won eight games out of eight and they do so despite the fact that they haven’t even played to their best levels.
They might not admit it, perhaps not even to themselves, but opposition fans, deep down, know just how good Liverpool are.
There’s nothing lucky about Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, they’re a great football team.Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise because, quite simply, they’re wrong.
